The Way of the Small: Why Less Is More

The Way of the Small: Why Less is Truly More explores the principals of a sound, wholesome exisistence for both the individual and society. Addressing the search for finding true happiness, meaning and success, The Way of the Small gives us new perspectives based on old wisdom on what makes for a truly lived life. A practical and spiritual guide to fulfillment, it illustrates that happiness is found in "the small"-in ways to celebrate the precious small gifts of ordinary life and experiencing the sacred in all aspects of life. We are reminded that "Less Is More, Simpler Is Better."

The Way of the Small teaches ways to embrace even life's more difficult passages such as aging, failure, illness, or the loss of a loved one, making even our pain a path to the sacred that helps us find meaning in life as it happens.

* Offers 22 key principles to activate the way of the small--simplify and discover true happiness.
* Especially relevant for mid-lifers, helping the process of sifting through life experience and finding what is of true essence, personally, spiritually and worldly.
* Relates the how "smallness" is part of established major religions and spiritual teachings. * A practical and spiritual guide to help us navigate a way of living in our complex times that leads to a happier and more meaningful and balanced life.

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The Importance of Being Little, 2008-08-26
The Way of the Small: Why Less Is More

Disraeli noted that "life is too short to be little". But I believe he was speaking in the context that we should be accomplishing worthwhile things with our lives. Michael Gellert suggests that we can become more of who we really are by becoming little in a different way,by reducing ego and manufactured self-importance, being humble and recognizing that others have strengths superior to ours. That liberates us to focus on what we can do better. A welcome book in an era when life is often defined as being "all about me" and material possessions. Less can be more in the end.


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Grateful for this book, 2008-03-16
I read the Way of the Small at a time when I needed new perspective on the seemingly odd and difficult turns that my life was taking. I was was enormously grateful to find a book that put the race for achievement that I had been part of in perspective. It also helped me transform what had felt like failure into a good and worthwhile path. I savored this book. It is well written, almost poetic.


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The Way of the Small - Too Big for Me, 2008-02-17
I was very disappointed in this book. I ordered several for gifts and waited to read it before I sent them to my friends. The books will be going to a used book store, not to my friends. Although I found some value in the book, there was not enough there to compensate for the time invested. Surely there is a better option for the delivery of this topic.


8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

Satisfying, challenging, and a contribution., 2008-01-09
I read this book slowly and thoughtfully. Addressing the contemporary challenges of our fast-paced consumerist society and hunger for meaning, Jungian Analyst Michael Gellert has put together a work that is inspiring and comprhensive. There are not easy answers here; this is not a book of pop psychology or easy religion. Rather, a thoughtful challenge to come back to ourselves, connect to what is real in the moment, and develop a way of living that is sustaining spiritually-regardless of your faith. The author's access to the texts and stories from all of the world's sacred traditions is truly impressive. However, it is this book's heart that is its central feature. I'm sure that I will return to it often.


7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

Inspiritual and Practical, 2007-12-19
Let me say that this is the first time I have been moved to write a review on Amazon but have always found helpful and benefited by others that have taken the time to do so.

The author treats us with an alternative look at our material society that bombards us with "more is better". We in the west live in an age whereby keeping up with the Jones's has been replaced with "surpass the Jones's at any cost". Difficult to not get caught up in the jetstream of advertising.
It addresses all stages of life so that nearly anyone can pick it up and find relevance to their particular circumstance. I could see this benefiting young teens as well as those at the end of life looking for ways to find peace. I highly recommend this book as a "life guide".
If you have ever bought a book to tried to figure out how to be happy or looked for ways to be more tranquil, then your collection could be more complete with this book which begs to be a classic.
Michael synthesizes centuries of wisdom with his pilgramage to find truth and further refines it with stories from his therapy practice so that ancient wisdom comes alive in a modern day context. Bottom line is that there is so much useful information that can be applied easily to daily life.
I find myself referring back to it. It is a book you will read and reread at different stages of your life and get something new each time you read it.
I work for a Fortune 500 comany and we are in the process of contacting this author to arrange for seminars for our employees. Not only could this bring them more happiness but make them more productive.

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